Milk or Fruit Juice for breakfast

[MunchMummy]

What do your children have.

At the moment mine, age just 2 and almost 4 have a glass of milk in the mornings, but I'm thinking of changing it to juice.

Both eat fruit in the day and have a glass of milk before bed, so not short on either.

Just can't decide which would be better for them, so thought I'd see what everyone else does.

Ta muchly.

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Milk or water here for 2 and 4 yo. I seem to recall my dentist saying I shouldn't have fruit juice in a close time frame to brushing my teeth (reacts badly together, or something) so I apply the same principle to the dcs and their teeth.

mine (6 and 3) have fruit juice with a splash of water added (makes the juice last longer).

p.s. as they have fruit juice with breakfast their teeth get brushed before rather than afterwards as per this advice:

Brush Before Breakfast advises the British Dental Health Foundation

2 milks and 1 fruit juice so far.

Anyone else. Mine would drink gallons of each if I let them (although one is goats milk because it stops her eczema flaring up).

Mine get a small glass of apple juice. (100ml I guess). And DS2 likes it "WARMED UP" with water from the kettle .

DS1 HATES milk. DS2 likes it but only on his cereal.

As long as they have plenty of fruit/veg in the day, i would say milk.

Watered down fruit juice, because I am tight... DS occasionally asks for milk instead (he is nearly 4 yrs).

Mine have fruit juice

DD won't drink milk and I don't like her to have juice (she eats load of fruit, doesn't need it), so it's always water in our house.

Ds's (7 and 4) both have milk.

Many thanks everyone. I think I've decided to carry on with milk - for the calcium and vitamins in it etc. Maybe I could give them juice with their tea instead.

Now if I could just get DD1 to touch meat we'd be sorted - but thats another problem.

Milk much better for then than juice - fat and protein as well as vitamins and minerals.

Juice is good if they have cereals fortified with iron (i.e. most breakfast cereals I think) because the vit C aids iron absorption!!

i give mine milk, then juice after lunch, then milk after dinner.

juice is good for softer poo, but too much i find acidy in my tum, so like giving them milk too as tis soothing.

Sorry not sure why I put exclamtion marks (any, never mind two) at the end of my post. Off to bed I think...

Mine had, and still have (19ys, 17ys and 12ys) milk on their cereal and a glass of fruit juice to drink.